Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardly should be close to the word it modifies. Wrong: They hardly gave a thought. . . . Correct: They gave hardly a thought...
Most popular foreign democratic statesman in Germany since last September has been British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. To many Germans who suddenly realized last autumn that war was very close, Mr. Chamberlain appeared as a hero who flew to Germany (three times) bringing much-desired peace. Two popular German picture post cards after the crisis showed Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler together, one before the Dreesen Hotel in Godesberg, the other with the ruins of Godesburg Castle in the background...
Last month Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare announced in the House of Commons that a close watch was being kept on Nazi doings in Great Britain. The expulsion of two men and a woman, officials of German organizations, soon followed. The Nazis struck back by booting out of Hamburg three British businessmen. Last week six more German agents were ordered to pack their bags. Adolf Hitler's newsorgan, Völkischer Beobachter, fumed...
Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco...
...these extra-curricular musical groups are interested in making a greater contribution to music at Harvard they could do so by giving a few free, informal performances here during the year. The Yard Concerts are the nearest approach we have to a close relationship between extra-curricular music and the College as a whole, and there is no apparent reason why their principle could not be applied more freely...